Comments on: The Old School: Oswald Jacoby on Poker https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/ Weekly poker podcast hosted by Andrew Brokos and Nate Meyvis featuring interviews with famous and behind-the-scenes figures from the poker world as well as an in-depth poker strategy segment. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: foucault https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-5135 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:25:26 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-5135 In reply to Thom Schwall.

Sorry, I’m afraid your guess would probably be better than mine. I thought it was neat a book, but I have no idea whether it’s valuable as a collector’s item. If you live near Las Vegas, I think the Gambler’s Book Shop would be the place to ask.

]]> By: Thom Schwall https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-5107 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:12:03 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-5107 I have a 1940 Hard Cover copy of it without the jacket, I was curious if you could tell me how much it is worth?
Thanks.
Thom
energyfuture@live.com

]]> By: John Gent https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-5029 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:47:26 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-5029 pretty cool blog you got follow me on twitter if you have it @ http://twitter.com/gr8p

]]> By: Josh https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-3956 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:26:25 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-3956 I’ve heard of that impossible call (though not called that) rule before. I think some card rooms still have it. Protects against the ultimate stupidity.

]]> By: Pete https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-3948 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:28:36 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-3948 Impossible call is really interesting haahhahaha.

]]> By: Dave Memphis MOJO https://www.thinkingpoker.net/2009/10/the-old-school-oswald-jacoby-on-poker/#comment-3944 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:50:19 +0000 http://www.thinkingpoker.net/?p=3424#comment-3944 Thank you for sharing this interesting post.

Jacboy was a super bridge player. Many of the best present-day bidding conventions are ideas he created (Jacoby transfer over 1NT and Jacoby 2NT raise of one of a major).

He was also a world champion in backgammon at age 70 (see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Backgammon_Champions ),

and he was good enough at gin rummy to write books about it.

He could multiply four digit numbers in his head in seconds, and loved to show off this ability. An amazing guy.

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